My standard week is 2 1/2 teaching lessons, and the last half of the 3rd class of the week, I play a review ppt game with my Ss called Pirates of the Classroom.The Ss really love playing it because it is very interactive and noisy. I also really enjoy this because I can check to see how much input my Ss have retained from my lessons.
As I complete more lessons I change the questions in the game, so my Ss get to see some questions maybe 3 or 4 times sometimes.
Anyway at the end of the 5th lesson there is a chapter review, which I thought they could do together as GW. There was 15 questions and I gave them 3 minutes to finish, and the first team to have everyone in their team answer all the questions would get a 5 point bonus. Telling them this basically served the purpose of focusing their attention on answering the questions. This worked and they were very studious, but it was interesting to see which students were operating as individuals and which were collective in their attitudes.
This was my low level class and for the entire time that I have been teaching at my school (8 weeks) there have been 2 boys in this class who would never answer a question or talk in English. When I asked what is the answer to questions 1 and both of their hands sprung up, I almost had a heart attack. I'm sure that it's been prophesied somewhere that when these boys answer a question in Daniel Teacher's class that this would be a Sign of the Apocalypse. They were confident in their answers because there are 2 smart girls on their team and they had discussed the answers with them before.
It really goes to show how good that "Team Talk Time" works to encourage very shy students to participate :)
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